From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:38:18 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20060601.092045.260111773.wl@gnu.org> <20060601.164650.112290796.wl@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149194386 19329 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2006 20:39:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:39:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 01 22:39:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FltxD-0006D0-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:39:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FltxC-0005fm-Mp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fltw3-0005Dm-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fltw1-0005Ck-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fltw1-0005Ce-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:38:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Flu2F-0004NT-Vd; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:44:52 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-246-167.inter.net.il [84.228.246.167]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id ETN23966 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:38:16 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Werner LEMBERG In-reply-to: <20060601.164650.112290796.wl@gnu.org> (message from Werner LEMBERG on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:46:50 +0200 (CEST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55577 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:46:50 +0200 (CEST) > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Werner LEMBERG > > How shall Joe User find this function? I don't know who decided that and why, but are you saying that we should document every single command in the manual? > Even I who am quite accustomed to the Emacs source files > had to search for more than 10 minutes because the function's name > neither has `unicode' nor `code' nor `character' in its name, and an > `apropos unicode' doesn't give anything useful. If `apropos' doesn't find something, try `apropos-documentation', which searches the doc strings, not only the symbols' names. > Additionally, there are a lot of Unicode characters which aren't > accessible with quial input methods. How do you enter such characters > then if not with `ucs-insert'? Examples will help. In general, characters that are very popular should be added to the respective input methods.